Dew Drop – October 20, 2015 (#2115)

Top Links

• Learn Roslyn Now – E01 – Introduction to Roslyn Tooling (Josh Varty)
• Inferring from “is”, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Aurelia + VS2015: Next Gen JS Framework in ASP.NET 5 (Nathan Allen-Wagner)
• Here’s The First Full Length Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Greg Kumparak)

 

Web Development

• Tag Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 6 (David Hayden)
• Angular 2: “We’re Really Close” (David Iffland)
• PHPUnit 5 in PhpStorm 9.5 (Gary Hockin)
• How to Incorporate Application Insights into a JavaScript Web App (Mansib Rahman)
• OWASP #6 Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure in ASP.NET – Part 1 (Max R. McCarty)
• Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Delete, Logout, and Single Blog View (Samantha Zhang)
• node.js integration in VS 2015 – Day 19 – 31 Days (Tillman Dickson)
• AngularJS in a Windows Store app – EP05 – Navigation (Timmy Kokke)
• Upgrading from ASP.NET 5 Beta 7 to Beta 8 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Monitoring an already-live Azure Web App (Beckylin Orooji)
• Why is there a “temporal dead zone” in ES6? and call-constructor-esprop (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Box Announces Developer Platform General Availability (Eric Carter)
• Why you should learn Go (Mike Van Sickle)
• Get Ready, Get Set, Go (Nathan Youngman)
• ECMAScript 6 destructuring gotcha (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Microservices – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Running Go Applications on Azure App Service (Xiaomin Wu)

 

XAML

• Introducing Layouts – Xaml for the Web (adospace.NET)
• On sharing media files between Windows Phone and OS X (Chris Miller)
• Make FQL queries from the latest Windows 10 Facebook SDK (Igor Ralic)
• Syncfusion UWP controls used in Windows 10 IoT Core Breathalyzer (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Improving App’s performance using compile time binding in Universal Windows App. (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Use NuGet Package Manager In Visual Studio 2015 (Mukesh Kumar)
• Type Converter to Type (Ricardo Peres)
• CSharp6.md – A Gist summarizing the new language features in C# 6 (Andrey Shchekin)
• Assigning event types to Serilog events (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• How do I get the user-customed name of a mapped network drive? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Remote versus Co-located Work (Martin Fowler)
• New fields bring Kanban goodness to queries, and more (Sondra Batbold)
• The Book: Mockups 101 (Igor Jese)
• Simplifying Applications with Eventual Consistency (Peter Vogel)
• Letting Go Of Technical Debt (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Do You Prefer Fast or Precise? (Jim Hogg)
• ebook deal of the week: Code Complete, 2nd Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Turning negative employee’s behavior into a positive one (Manpreet Kaur)
• The NoEstimates Movement (Tomas Rybing)
• Storyteller 3: Executable Specifications and Living Documentation for .Net (Jeremy D. Miller)
• API Design: A Documentation-first Approach (Zachary Flower)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 10 Android UI Design Tips to Improve Your App’s Visual Appeal (Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder)
• Creating a Dictionary App Using React Native for Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Easily Authenticate Users with Android’s Confirm Credential (James Montemagno)
• Introducing the Azure Storage Client Library for iOS (public preview) (Michael Curd)
• Let’s Put Some Make Up on the Telerik ListView for Xamarin (Rositsa Topchiyska)
• More Countries, More Languages, Improved targeting when buying ads to promote your apps (Bernardo Zamora)
• Understanding and troubleshooting WinRM connection and authentication: a thrill seeker’s guide to adventure (Matt Wrock)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Property-Based Testing using F# with Mark Seemann (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 175 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• New Video: Git Basics for Visual Studio Developers (Jeremy Clark)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 87 “No Glare Coating…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• The Web Ahead 107: Being Tracked with Brett Gaylord (Jen Simmons)
• SQL Server Radio Show 32 – Morning Checklists, Policy Based Management and Automation with Pieter Vanhove (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)

 

Community / Events

• Life as a Teaching Assistant at the Software Guild (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Geekoween 2015: Indy Hall + Geekadelphia’s Annual Halloween Bash @ Tmoms (Chris Urie)
• Microsoft Connect (); // 2015 Developer Event Set for November 18-19 (Mitra Azizirad)

 

Database

• Find MAX value from multiple columns in a SQL Server table (Sergey Gigoyan)
• Creating a date dimension or calendar table in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Restore Job Error: The file is too recent to apply to the secondary database (Pinal Dave)
• Loading English LiDAR Open Data Into Excel And Power Map Using Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft nominates two new female board members as Maria Klawe prepares to step down (Jacob Demmitt)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets $18.3M in pay as board cites ‘strong, consistent vision’ (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 19, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #190 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1568 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1950 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 19th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the Week October 18 2015 (Chris Love)

 

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